Quotes by Voltaire

“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.”

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“Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?”

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“Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts flourish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any experienced in a town when it is under siege.”

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“God is on the side not of the heavy battalions, but of the best shots.”

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“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss CunĂ©gonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.”

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history of this quote “All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” by Voltaire

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history of this quote “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” by Voltaire

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history of this quote “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?” by Voltaire

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history of this quote “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.” by Voltaire

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history of this quote “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” by George Bernard Shaw

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